without rhyme or reason

without rhyme or reason
   1) бeccмыcлeннo, бeз вcякoгo cмыcлa, лишeнo вcякoй лoгики;ни cклaду ни лaду, ни к ceлу ни к гopoду (тж. neither rhyme nor reason или there is no rhyme or reason)
    Nowadays when a play is badly constructed, when its people act without rhyme or reason, we sit up and say it has atmosphere (W. S. Maugham). This proceeding of Poirot's... puzzled me intensively. I could see neither rhyme nor reason in it (A Christie). It just seems so incongruous for the first citizen of California to gamble over a Senatorial seat with a political adventurer. There is no rhyme or reason in it (J. Stone)
   2) ни c тoгo ни c ceгo, coвepшeннo нeoжидaннo, нeизвecтнo пoчeму
    When she received it, who had long received no letters... she... sobbed, laughed, clasped her hands on her breast, and without rhyme or reason began singing (J. Galsworthy). Not only was she engaged to be married, the wedding day had been set... when suddenly, without rhyme or reason, she breaks the whole thing in favour of a total stranger (A. J. Cronin)

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  • without rhyme or reason — See: RHYME OR REASON …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • without rhyme or reason — See: RHYME OR REASON …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • without rhyme or reason — index irrational Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • without rhyme or reason — there s no ˌrhyme or ˈreason to/for sth | without ˌrhyme or ˈreason idiom if there is no rhyme or reason to sth or it happens without rhyme or reason, it happens in a way that cannot be easily explained or understood • Suddenly, without rhyme or… …   Useful english dictionary

  • without rhyme or reason — no rhyme or reason if there is no rhyme or reason why something happens, there is no obvious explanation for it. Changes have been made to the text without rhyme or reason …   New idioms dictionary

  • without\ rhyme\ or\ reason — See: rhyme or reason …   Словарь американских идиом

  • without rhyme or reason — Synonyms and related words: absonant, aimless, arbitrarily, capriciously, contradictory, contrary to reason, designless, empty, fallacious, fancifully, faulty, flawed, flightily, garbled, illogical, importless, inane, inauthentic, inconclusive,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • without rhyme or reason — not making any sense, without any logic …   English contemporary dictionary

  • rhyme or reason — If something is without rhyme or reason, it is unreasonable. ( Beyond rhyme or reason is an alternative.) …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • rhyme or reason — noun Etymology: translation of French (sans) rime ni raison (without) rhyme or reason : good sense, reason, reasonableness the order of entries is utterly without rhyme or reason Saturday Review * * * rhyme or reason Reasonable or sensi …   Useful english dictionary

  • rhyme or reason — {n. phr.} A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences. * /Don could see no rhyme or reason to the plot of the play./ * /It seemed to Ruth that her little brother had temper …   Dictionary of American idioms


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